2,430 . . . is the number of passengers that Titanic II will
hold when the ultimate made-in-China replica product glides out of its
Shanghai shipyard in 2016.

Unlike the under-provisioned safety features of the original, the planned new
version will boast a 1:1 ratio of paying guests to lifeboat spaces and
rather better iceberg detection software than a man peering through the fog
from the crow’s nest.

For obvious reasons, everyone involved in this chest-beating giga-project has
been very keen indeed to talk-up the safety side of things. After all, Clive
Palmer, the Australian mining tycoon behind this vision, and the CSC